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2019 has been the evidence of yet another reason to celebrate for DSC! One being the obvious, the silver jubilee year of the organization and another for winning an awe-inspiring spectrum of awards, “Water Digest Water Awards 2018-19” in the Best Water NGO- Water Education category. The chief guest of the award ceremony was Mr. Nitin Gadkari along with Mr. U. P. Singh, and other respected dignitaries. The gala event held on February 28, 2019 at Hotel the Lalit, Near Barakhamba Road, Cannaught Place, New Delhi. The award was given by Mr. U. P. Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

DSC dedicates the award to the community, particularly women and marginal farmers, government officials, CSR partners, donors, partner NGOs, and friends of DSC with whom we have been collaborating for the past 25 years. They provided us the opportunities to work with more than 1.5 lakh rural households spreading in more than 500 villages of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and making a difference in the life of rural people.

In the past, DSC has also received the following recognition like the Gujarat NGO Leadership Award 2017, the FICCI-CSR Awards 2016 for environment sustainability and CII-CSR Water award for its initiative in collaboration with RBS Foundation India, the India Power Awards in 2008. DSC was a runner up for the Times of India Social Impact Award in 2014 in livelihood category.

DSC believes in the motto “From Water to Wealth”. For achieving the same, the development of village wise and basin wise Water Security plan should be the building block of any development program. People shall be on the driver seat of development-engine and NGOs, Government and other stakeholders shall play the role of facilitator. It is a normal notion that community-led development is easy said than done but DSC has successfully demonstrated in diverse geographies by adopting 13 sequential steps of community empowerment (available on http://www.dscindia.org) which were evolved by our founder chairman Shri. Anil Shah and that has been instrumental in creating robust and financially viable Water User Associations in Gujarat and other states. The Development agencies are invited for implementation, action research, capacity building related collaborations for the development works.